{"id":4399,"date":"2011-06-24T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2011-06-24T08:54:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T12:54:22","slug":"morning-read-and-then-there-was-one-in-long-lake-that-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/24\/morning-read-and-then-there-was-one-in-long-lake-that-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  And then there was one (in Long Lake, that is)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-4400\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/24\/morning-read-and-then-there-was-one-in-long-lake-that-is\/long-lake-graduate\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4400\" title=\"Long Lake Graduate\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/Long-Lake-Graduate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/Long-Lake-Graduate.jpg 151w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2011\/06\/Long-Lake-Graduate-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>A lot of reporting this week about the fact that Long Lake Central School District will only graduate one senior this year, Stephen Pitcher (pictured here from his high school yearbook.<\/p>\n<p>This from Mary Thill in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackalmanack.com\/2011\/06\/long-lake-graduates-class-of-one.html\">Adirondack Almanack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many Adirondack schools struggle with low  enrollment, and they share proms, sports teams and other resources with  neighboring districts. Raquette Lake Central School closed in 2005,  busing its last three students to Indian Lake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hamiltoncountyexpress.com\/schools\/\">The Hamilton County Express, meanwhile, (subscription required to read full article)<\/a> is reporting that only 54 seniors graduated this spring in the entire county.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fifty-two Hamilton County high school seniors will graduate in  ceremonies next week at Indian Lake Central School, Long Lake Central  School, Town of Webb School and Wells Central School&#8230;Indian Lake Central School has 17 graduates this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_7fef1d08-9db4-11e0-95bf-001cc4c03286.html\">Glens Falls Post Star<\/a> notes that when Pitcher&#8217;s family requested that the graduation ceremony be canceled, the school complied.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the Pitcher family requested Friday&#8217;s graduation ceremony be canceled, the Long Lake Central School complied.<\/p>\n<p>The family is that of Stephen Pitcher, who is the Class of 2011. He is the only person graduating this year.<\/p>\n<p>Long Lake, with 63 students from prekindergarten to grade 12 this year, is one of the smallest districts in the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_7fef1d08-9db4-11e0-95bf-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1QCI5Dk9t\"><\/a>First of all, congratulations to Stephen.\u00a0 Best of luck.\u00a0 Now I open the floor to discussion of what this means for the value and cost of education, when a county the size of Hamilton has only a few dozen students.\u00a0 Any thoughts?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of reporting this week about the fact that Long Lake Central School District [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4401,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/4401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}